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(No ModL) M. H. SLY. CURTAIN FIXTURE.

No. 327,831. Y Patented ont. 6, 1885.

WITNESSES INVEJVTR 724 f7@ j@ @I Unire STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORGAN H. SLY, OF ADRIAN, MISSOURI, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO I?. F.

WOOD, OF SAME PLAGE.

CURTAIN-FIXTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,831, dated October 6, 1885.

Application filed October 21, 1884. Serial No. 146,119. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern: cornice-hook, R. A similar hook is placed to Be it known that I, MORGAN H. SLY, a citione side of the rollers G. zen of the United States, residing at Adrian, A cord, S, is secured to one side of the strip in the county of Bates and State of Missouri, D and passed through the hole I in the roller 55 5 have invented certain new and useful Improve- G next to the frame, thence across the said ments in Curtain-Fixtures, of which the folframe and over the roller O downward to the lowing is a specification, reference being had other end of the strip D, where it is secured. therein to the accompanying drawings. The roller G having been turned so as to ele- My invention relates to improvements in vate the strip D to its highest point, a cord, 6o 1o curtain-xtures, and is designed to produce a T, is passed through a hole in the outer roller, simple and economical device for holding an G, and there secured, the other end passing ordinary curtain on a roller and to adjust the through the eye or loop M in the arm L and same at any desired height relative to the hanging loosely or secured to a cleat on the window, so that air and light, if so desired, frame. Supposing the strip D, containing a 65 15 may be admitted at the top thereof, while the curtain, should be at its lowest point. By lower portion of the window will be shaded. pulling on the cord T, the arm with its pawl The device is adaptable to any width of being held to one side so as to free the wheel curtain, and will carry any roller now in use. K, the rollers G are turned, elevating the f In describing the device reference is had said strip to any desired height, and by pull- 70 2o to the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 ing the arm L so that the pawl engages represents a front elevation of the device, and with the ratchet-wheel K it is held rmly in Fig. 2 a section through it. place.

A designates a window-frame of ordinary The device, it will be seen, is simple in conconstruction. On each side, and projecting struction, easily manipulated, and adaptable 75 2 5 inward, is a strip, B, preferably metallic, exto any window or curtain-roller.

, tending from the top to about the point where Since rollers arranged on each side of a the two sashes meet, and is there provided window-casing, a sliding curtaiirholder supwith astop, C. ported by cords passing over said rollers, a

Extending laterally across the frame is a ratchet-wheel arranged in conjunction with 8o 30 strip, D, having at each end bearings E for the rollers, an arm having a pawl engaging the curtain-roller. On the other side of the with said ratchet, and a cord operating the strip are two pieces, F, having lips that enrollers, and also the pawl-arm, are not new gage the inward proj eetion of the strips B,and in curtain-fixtures, they are not claimed as enso form retaining-guides for the strip D in its tering, broadly, into this invention. g5 3 5 travel along the strips B, the stops Gprevent- Having described the device, what I claim ing their slipping off. is p At the top of the casing, near one side, is a 1. In a curtain-fixture, the combination of double roller, G, projecting at right angles to a curtain-holding strip having sliding bearthe casing and supported by a bearing-frame, .ings in a window-frame with a double roller 9o 4o H, secured to the said casing. rlhe rollers projecting at right anglesto thewindow-frame have through each of them a hole, I. On the at one side thereof, a single roller projecting double roller G, within the bearing H, is a at right angles to the frame on the other ratchet-wheel, K, moving with the said roll side, a ratchet-wheel on the double roller, a ew pivoted arm with a pawl engaging with said 9: 45 Pivoted to the bearing H is a curved arm, ratchet, a cord passing over both rollers and L, having a loop, M, at its lower end, and an supporting the curtain-holding strip, and a integral pawl, N, near its upper end, for encord attached to one part of the double rollgaging with the wheel K. er and operating the same, thewhole coml At the other side of the casing, on aline bined substantially as and for the purpose 10o 5o with the rollers G, is a single roller, O, sespecified.

cured by a bearing-plate, P, and pivoted by a 2. In a curtainfixture, a curtain holder having lipped pieces on one side, in combination with strips on the Window-frame, said Y strips projecting inside of the frame and provided With stops at the lower end and ex- 5 tending from the top of the inside of the frame to about the middle thereof, substantially as and for the purpose sp eoifled.

In testimonywhereof I affix my si gnature in presence of two Witnesses.

Witnesses:

L. M. PUTNAM, W. P. HALL.

MORGAN H. SLY. 

